| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Intersections, 1568-1181 ; v. 13 |
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 13.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Notes on the Editors; List of Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction (Lee Palmer Wandel); The Politics of Light: Al-Kindi's Geometrical Optics and the Vindication of the American Tropics in Bartolomé de las Casas's Ap; A Topographer's Eye: From Gilles Corrozet to Pieter Apian (Tom Conley); The Ethnographic Lens in the New World: Staden, De Bry, and the Representation of the Tupi in Brazil (Neil L. Whitehead); Depicting Perspective: The Return of the Gaze in Codex Telleriano-Remensis (c. 1563) (José Rabasa) |
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John Calvin and Michel de Montaigne on the Eye (Lee Palmer Wandel)Quel rapport entre un jeu de paume et le roi David? Analogie et Exégèse Visuelle dans le David et Bethsabée de Herri met de Bles (Michel Weemans); 'Quae lecta Canisius offert et spectata diu': The Pictorial Images in Petrus Canisius's De Maria Virgine of 1577/1583 (Walter S. Melion); Index Nominum |
| Summary |
Drawing on optic theory, ethnography, and the visual cultures of Christianity, this volume explores various discourses of vision in early modern Europe and the colonial Americas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Essays chiefly in English; one essay in French |
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Print version record |
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Visual perception -- History
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Perception (Philosophy) -- History
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Visual perception.
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Culture.
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Visual Perception
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Christianity -- history
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Culture
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History, 16th Century
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visual perception.
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culture note.
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culture (concept)
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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Culture
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Perception (Philosophy)
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Visual perception
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Visuelle Wahrnehmung
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Wahrnehmung
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Philosophie
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Melion, Walter S
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Wandel, Lee Palmer
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| ISBN |
9789047444046 |
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9047444043 |
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